Nobel Prize Laureates

Awarded a Nobel Prize in physics in 1973 for his work in electrical engineering, Ivar Giæver returned to Norway years later to take a professorship at the University of Oslo and address biophysical questions.

Beginning his economic career because the subject was quick and easy, Ragnar Frisch gradually developed a passion for the field that led to a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1969 for groundbreaking research and innovative economic thinking.

Fridtjof Nansen was a professor of zoology and later oceanography at the University of Oslo. Nansen was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 for his humanitarian efforts to help refugees and victims of World War I.